Two attendees chase each other with rang at the Holi Fest on April 9, 2022. The 2022 Holi Fest theme was "Coloring Outside the Lines," in a celebration of diversity.
Holi Fest attendees jump after the countdown to the rang powder toss on April 9, 2022. Also known as the Festival of Colors, Holi is a Hindu celebration welcoming the arrival of spring.
Students socialize, eat and do homework while waiting in line for Hank Green. Green creates educational science content on YouTube and TikTok, hosts several podcasts and co-created VidCon.
Students form a crowd at the Holi Fest on Apr. 9, 2022. The festival featured live music by DJ Susant.
Content creator Hank Green answers audience questions, drawn out of a basket, including what his favorite conspiracy theory is. During the conversation, Green said he has plans to remake the biology crash courses with UT chemistry professor Kate Biberdorf, known for her educational chemistry video series Kate the Chemist.
“Health is multifaceted and nuanced to the point that the strides you want to make in the healthcare field cannot be made by people that are similar to one another. Because the problems in health are diverse, it doesn't make sense (for) one group of people in which general health has been structured to support or reflect dictate or find solutions in the health field. The problems are diverse, and the problems are hard. You need to have people who are diverse.” –Esther Egbulonu, sociology and public health senior. Featured in The Daily Texan portrait gallery "Health Equity Exposure Experience Atendees"
Over 100 UT students and community members marched from the Tower to the Capitol on March 25, 2022 as part of an international climate movement and to encourage the Texas Legislature to hold the Electric Reliability Council of Texas accountable for 2021’s winter storm-induced power failures. The marchers also called for an expansion of climate education, while Students Fighting Climate Change continues to demand divestment.
Christy Hjorth, a biochemistry graduate student who worked on protein expression and purification for HexaPro, receives her booster shot at the pop-up clinic held at the UT Tower main mall on November 18, 2021. “It was incredibly rewarding working on it,” Hjorth said. “A lot of long hours and effort going into stuff, but it was really great seeing the translation from the bench to what is now going into all the health clinics.”
Activism group RiseUp4AbortionRights hosted a rally at downtown Austin’s Republic Square Park on April 9, 2022, to protest recent attacks on abortion rights in the U.S. and Texas.The protest came in response to Texas’s Senate Bill 8, a near-total ban on abortion that went into effect Sep. 2021, with a similar bill passing the Oklahoma legislature earlier that week.
Gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks at AFL-CIO by the State Capitol on Feb. 9, 2022. The rally presented O'Rourke and other speakers in Austin who discussed the state-wide crisis during winter Storm Uri in Feb. 2021.
An attendee holds a candle during the candle lighting at the Beto O'Rourke rally on Feb. 9, 2022. Attendees held candles in honor of the 246 lives lost during Storm Uri in Feb. 2021.
A protester holds a sign reading "Beto-Biden crisis is killing Texans" behind the crowd at the Beto O'Rourke rally on Feb. 9, 2022. O'Rourke advocated for an improved state power grid and addressed issues such as homelessness and access to healthcare in his speech.
Gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks at AFL-CIO by the State Capitol on Feb. 9, 2022. O'Rourke called for the reform of Texas infrastructure after the ERCOT power failures during winter Storm Uri in Feb. 2021.
Leland Murphy and Isabel Agbassi embrace after winning President and Vice President of the student body in the 2022-23 election on March 7, 2022.
Senior guard Courtney Ramey sprints down the court at the game against Kansas on February 8, 2022. Texas became the first team in the Big 12 to beat Kansas three times in a row in 19 years. Ramey was tasked with defending leading Kansas senior guard Ochai Agbaji and him to 11 points.
Nearly 50 UT students and community members gathered in front of the Texas capitol afternoon to protest the occupation of Palestine on January 24, 2022. Student organization Palestine Solidarity Committee held the protest at the intersection of W. 11 St. and Congress Ave., and attendees included former Palestinian residents. Protestors chanted in English and Arabic and held signs reading “Save Sheikh Jarrah” and “We Will Remain.”.
UT students joined about 1,000 protestors in a march to the Capitol on October 2, 2021, to oppose Texas’ recent passing of the country’s most restrictive abortion law.Several UT student protestors voiced that Senate Bill 8 restricts essential reproductive health care at the Austin Women’s March, which began at 9 a.m. and lasted three hours.
Two friends embrace at the Austin Women’s March on October 2, 2021.
Protestors surround the Texas Capitol steps at the Austin Women's March on October 2, 2021. Wendy Davis, a former Texas state senator and founder of Deeds Not Words, a women’s rights organization, described the march with one word: resilience. “It’s your future,” Davis said. “This is the future of young women, of our young trans and non-binary community. Without your voices and your participation, you will likely inherit something that isn’t going to give you the opportunities that you deserve.”
Students Fighting Climate Change chant inside the UT Tower by the President's office after their meeting with Hartzell was canceled. “It’s disrespectful, unprofessional, and disturbing that they pick and choose which student issues to listen to, and that they try to divert our concerns to faculty members with less power,” SFCC said in a statement.
About 30 UT students protested the University’s policies toward climate change and fossil fuel investments inside the Tower on October 26, 2021. SFCC's divestment proposal suggests that the University send a formal message to the community acknowledging the climate crisis, form a diverse committee to create an equitable climate action plan and appoint professionals to transition the Carl J. Eckhardt power plant on campus to zero emissions.
SFCC exit the Tower after protesting University climate policies on October 26, 2021.
Junior forward Tre Mitchell shoots the basketball in Texas’ 92-48 victory over Houston Baptist on November 9, 2021, at the Frank Erwin Center.
UT students hook 'em after winning the opening game against Houston Baptist on November 9, 2021.
Timmy Allen exits the court after the season-opening game against Houston Baptist.
Pitmaster Orie King serves up a brisket platter at OG’s Barbeque at the Cedar Pork food truck park. Shot for Community Impact.
Glenda King serves banana pudding at Cedar Pork. Shot for Community Impact.
Graduate student Jordan Windle took first place in the 1-meter prelims on at the Texas Diving Invitational with a score of 398.60.
Windle ended in third place after the 3-meter prelims with a score of 392.90, and shifted into first place for finals and tied with Texas A&M swimmer Kurtis Matthews, both scoring 463.05.
Austin Yoga Tree members practice shavasana, the resting and restorative pose done at the end of a yoga session. Shot for Community Impact.
Protestors begin the downhill trek from Republic Square to the state Capitol on May 3, 2022. A megaphone amplified voices that led the crowd in chant and direction.
Protestors approach the state Capitol in support of abortion rights on May 3, 2022. The protest was held in opposition to the conservative majority Court's decision to reconsider the Roe v. Wade precedent, according to the leaked Politico draft opinion.
Protestors chant on the Capitol steps in May 3, 2022. The protest was held in opposition to the United States Supreme Court’s intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to an unprecedented publication of a leaked draft opinion by Politico.
After marching from Republic Square, protestors arrive at the Capitol steps on May 3, 2022. The crowd echoed chants such as "my body, my choice."
A protestor shouts after a policeman on Congress Ave., on May 3, 2022. While walking back from the Capitol, protestors were corralled off the blocked off streets and onto sidewalks.
Patrick Averhart, left, and Danielle Carty load a supply van and direct volunteers at Sunny South Nutrition in South Dallas before supply distribution for Feed the People Dallas, a mutual-aid organization, on June 17, 2021. Shot for The Dallas Morning News.
Volunteer Olivia Najera-Garcia hands out bottled water in under-freeway encampments for Feed the People Dallas on June 18, 2021. Shot for The Dallas Morning News.
"My family was ethnically cleansed in 1948. The reason I have such a strong connection is because of Palestinian organizers in my undergrad when I was a college student. They helped me connect more to my Palestinian heritage and if it wasn’t for Palestinian activists and organizers I probably wouldn’t be here today. My family and my heritage is important, but even if I wasn’t Palestinian I would be out here fighting for Palestine. As youth we play an important role on social media, but we need people out on the streets more,"–Nashwa Abdelwahed, member of the Palestinian Youth Movement. Shot for The Dallas Morning News.
